Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking IL-13 ...

Dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria—a leading cause of ventilator-associated ...

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In hospitalized patients, eosinophil levels positively correlated with antibiotic use, systemic inflammation, and worsened ...

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Pediatricians across the nation are seeing a rise in cases of mycoplasma pneumoniae, and in Saint Joseph teenagers are ...

The respiratory illness typically affects school-age kids, but the CDC reports a rise in cases in children aged 2-4.

Clinicians treating patients with kidney disease must be aware of dental considerations to avoid potentially lethal consequences.

Health experts are urging voters to take precautions at the polls amid a surge in cases of so-called "walking pneumonia." Test positivity for the bacterial infection has more than tripled since late ...

The health of your teeth and gums, and oral health in general, is more important than you might think. Decades of research ...

Coach Kyle Shanahan revealed to reporters Monday that wide receiver Deebo Samuel has pneumonia. “Deebo Samuel, he had kind of an odd illness, some fluid in his lungs so technically pneumonia ...

The pneumonia vaccine is now recommended for those at least age 50, down from age 65. It covers about 20 kinds of bacterial pneumonia — but not the kind currently going around, mycoplasma pneumoniae.